They captured an image of the supermassive black hole and its shadow at the center of a galaxy known as M87. The supermassive black hole has a mass that is 6.5 billion times that of our sun. "We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole." The black hole image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, called EHT, is a global network of telescopes that captured the first-ever photograph of a black hole.

Source: CNN April 10, 2019 13:20 UTC